Abstracts

Leah Childers On automorphisms of the symmetric separating curve complex
Pallavi Dani Higher divergence for right-angled Artin groups
Tara Davis Distortion in Free Nilpotent Groups and Length Functions for Semigroup Embeddings
Mark Hagen Special groups with an elementary hierarchy.
Joel Louwsma Immersed surfaces in the modular orbifold
Natasa Macura Line Patterns in Free Groups
Denis Osin Beyond relative hyperbolicity
Alexandra Pettet Out(F) and its relatives
Bobby Ramsey The Isocohomological Property
Tim Riley On the Dehn functions of Baumslag's metabelian groups
Mark Sapir Asymptotic cones of the mapping class group.
Mark Sapir Residual properties of 1-related groups
Juan Souto Commuting tuples in SU_n and SL_nC
Stefan Wenger Quadratic Dehn functions, asymptotic cones, and nilpotent Lie groups
Xiangdong Xie Large Scale Geometry of some Negatively Curved Solvable Lie Groups
Robert Young The Dehn function of SL(n;Z)
Robert Young Filling inequalities for nilpotent groups